books.google.de - In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with radical consequences for the meanings of politics,...https://books.google.de/books/about/Technopoly.html?hl=de&id=gYrIVidSiLIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareTechnopoly

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

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TECHNOPOLY

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Postman (Conscientious Objections, 1988, etc.) once more cuts across the grain as an important critic of our national culture, this time arguing that America has become the world's first ``totalitarian technocracy''—otherwise known as a ``Technopoly.'' Postman starts out from the long view, showing that while every human culture becomes ``tool-using,'' the use of those tools doesn't necessarily ... Vollständige Rezension lesen